Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

General Musharraf needs my participation to give credibility to the electoral process, as well as to respect the fundamental right of all those who wish to vote for me.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

Given the right to a free ballot, the people would support my return.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

I am constitutionally competent to contest the elections.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

I'd go to other people's homes, and I remember a friend of mine -- they couldn't eat food until the brothers had finished, and the leftovers would be given to the daughters. That never happened in our home. I remember that I used to sit at the head of the table because I was the eldest child. That never happened in other homes, and I should have asked my father when I had the chance, but he enabled me to appreciate that a woman is not a lesser creature. 
- Benazir Bhutto Quote (Academy Of Achievement, October 2000)

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

It's true that General Musharraf opposes my return, seeing me as a symbol of democracy in the country. He is comfortable with dictatorship. I hope better sense prevails.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in Afghanistan.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

My father was a lawyer. I remember him coming back and saying that a man came and said, "I don't have any money to pay you for this case." Some other case he'd been involved in. And he said, "Take my cow because I don't have any money," and that was the cow that would give them milk to feed the children. So it was quite shocking to me, and I was sensitive to it because my father was sensitive to it. 
- Benazir Bhutto Quote (Academy Of Achievement, October 2000)

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

The military wants a system that protects its policies and privileges.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

The next few months are critical to Pakistan's future direction as a democratic state committed to promoting peace, fighting terrorism and working for social justice.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it was a matter of time before the Americans responded by going for what they suspected were the causes of the attack.
- Benazir Bhutto Quote

"These same critics who are now criticising me never spoke up when America was standing by Musharraf through thick and thin," 
- Benazir Bhutto Quote (Telegraph UK, December 2007